Charles C. Stockley

Charles Clark Stockley ( born November 6, 1819 in Georgetown, Delaware, † April 20, 1901 ) was an American politician and 1883-1887 Governor of the State of Delaware.

Early years and political rise

After his school days in Philadelphia in 1839 Stockley returned to Delaware. There he spent seven years as a teacher before he opened a general store in Milford. At the same time he managed a large area of farmland on which he ran among others, a peach orchard. Stockley belonged to the biggest Pfirsichanbauern in Delaware.

Stockley was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1852 he became treasurer in Sussex County and in 1856 he became sheriff. Between 1873 and 1877 Stockley was a member of the Senate from Delaware, where he was its president since 1876. On 7 November 1882 he was elected as a candidate of his party with 53% of the vote against Albert Curry, the candidate of the Republicans, as the new governor of his state.

Governor of Delaware

Charles Stockley took up his new post on January 16, 1883. In his four-year tenure, he sat down for an improvement of the education system and called for a constitutional reform. In addition, a State Archives (State library) was founded. At that time, his Democratic party still saw as the party of the "white man." By special election laws (Poll Taxes) ties that bound the right to vote on the tax law, most blacks were excluded from this law. Governor Stockley indeed did not alter the existing conditions, which covered the situation of African Americans, but he said at the end of his tenure, the hope that the situation could soon change in favor of the minority but this he was ahead of his time by decades was only in the 1960s, the situation should. .. modify

Further CV

After the end of his tenure, Stockley devoted first to his private business. In 1891 he became a judge in a probate and executor in Sussex County. In addition, he has been director of the railway company Junction and Breakwater Railroad. Charles Stockley died in April 1901., With his wife Ellen Anderson he had a daughter Hannah.

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